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L1'. E. MQKINNON.

DASH BOARD.

No. 279,412. y PatentedvJune 12,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LACHLAN E. MCKINNON, OF ST. OATHARINES, ONTARIO, CANADA.

DASH-BOARD.

, SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,412, dated .Tune 12, 18h83.

I Application filed November 25, 1882. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern/ Be it known that I, LACHLAN EEENEZER MOKINNON, a citizen ofthe Dominion of Canada, a subject of Great Britain, residing at St.

Catharines, in the county of Lincoln and Provi'nce of Ontario, Canada, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buggy or Carriage Dashes, of which the following` is a speciiica` tion.

' My invention relates to that class of dashes made with movable or adjustable feet 5 and it consists of the construction and novel arrangement of the lower part ofthe dash-frame, dash foot, and the bolt and clamp by which the dash is fastened to the body of vehicle.

In making my framel allow the end uprights to extend below the ordinary bottom rail of frame, and attach to these extensions a second lower rail, which is parallel to and slightly removed from the ordinary bottom rail. This second rail gives the appearance (when the dash is finished) of a skirt or fall, which is made on ordinary dashes. by extending the covering material of the dash some `5 distance below the bottom rail of frame and putting in a piece of wood to stiften it. The

second lower rail may be either of oval, iiat, channeled, or other desirable shape.

The attachment of the -dash to the vehicleo body may be made either by bolts or screws passing from outside of dash-frame througlraJ hole or slot in the second lower rail and through the front panel o'f body an il the feet, mentioned hereinafter; (or they may pass through only 5 body or the feet only;) or the attachment may be made by means of a clamp or plate, (or two of them which forms the second part of my invention. This plate or clamp consists of a piece of metal, which may be attached to the o dash, by means of screws, or otherwise, after the covering material is put on. It is formed in such a way as to leave a space for the bolthead between the plate and the dash, when the plate is attached to the dash. (This space may 5 be secured by having a groove or hollow in either the plate or the second bottom rail, or in both.) In attaching by means of this plate, the bolt is put through a hole or slot in` the plate, with the bolt-head on the side which is intended to go next to the dash. The plate or clamp is then attached to the dash in such a way as to confine the bolt-head between the dash and the plate. The dash is then (with the bolts proj ccting from its inside face) placed againstthe front panel of the body and the bolts secured with nuts, as before described.

yIf screws be used for attaching dash to body,

this clamp may be a simple flat plate, into which one or more screws from the body may be secured; and it may have slots through which the screws attaching it to the dash may pass, thus allowing it to be adjusted to suit the screws coming from the body. In any of of these plans of attaching, the bolts or screws maybe secured to an iron projecting from the body instead olif to the body direct. l prefer, in order to give a more inished appearanee'to the d. sh when on the vehicle, to have a foot (or piece of iron) projecting from the dash, in a similar shape to the foot on what is known as a solid-foot dash. This foot may be` attached in. some way, to the dash, or it may be separate. If separate, it should be made long enough to press against the covering material ofthe dash when in position, in order to give the appearance of a solid foot.

The object of my invention is to make vehicle-dashes that may be adjusted to suit differA ent bodies, and of which the feet (if any) may be detachable in order to fit (by heating or otherwise) the feet to the vehiclebody; also to make adjustable dashes, as above described7 on the inside face of which, above the body, there will be no bolt or .nut or other objectionable fastening to mar the appearance, and which, when attached to the vehicle, will have very much the saine appearance as a solid-foot dash.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front view with part of covering removed. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional view through x x in Fig. l. t Fig. 3- represents a different pattern or style of foot.

In the annexed drawings, A is the ordinary lower dash-rai1. A is `the additional rail at; tached to the extensions F F of the end uprights, F F. B is the foot. C is the bolt which fastens the dash to body. D is the plate or clamp through which the bolt G passes when it is not desirable to have the bolt pass through the dash-frame. E represents part of the front of the vehicle-body to which the dash is to be fast- IOO through the clamps or plates'D, which are at tached to the additional bottom rail, A, by screws or otherwise. The dash, with the bolts C projecting' from it, is then put in position and the bolts C inserted through holes bored in 'the front part of body E, or through the feet B, or through both body and feet. It is obvious that instead of the bolts C screws may be used, passing from the body into any part of the additional rail A, or into the clamps or plates l), and thus attaching the dash to the vehicle.

The foot B (shown in Fig. 3) is a special pattern designed to be used when the body of vehicle is of the style known. as a plnetonbody, 7 or any style which has no upright panel in the front suitable to attach in the way already described. In this case the offset G is provided, through which the bolt may pass, and against which the nut of said bolt may be screwed up to lmake the fastening complete.

The appearance of this dash when properly attached to the vehicle is very neat, and is almost precisely the same as a solid-foot dash, the. rail A appearing the same as the bottom rai-l on the ordinary dash, the Afoot B seeming to be solid therewith, and the additional rail A appearing the same as the skirt or fall, which, iu the ordinary dash, proj eets a short distance below the bottom rail and in front of 4o 'leather-covered part, which would be injured by contact with ire,`) can be heated and bent to a suitable shape after the dash is otherwise finished, thus enabling the dash to be manufactured in a wholesale way, instead of each dash requiring to be fitted to the vehicle on which it is to be placed lbefore the covering material can be applied.

l claim as my inventionl. In a vehicle-dash, the combination ot' the frame, constructed as described, with the additional bottom rail and the slotted metal plates and bolts, said plates being secured to the additional rail, substantially as described.

2. In vehicle-dashes, the combination of the frame and the additional bottom rail with the slotted metal plates secured to the bottom rail, and bolts, said plates having the bolts extended therethrough, as described, whereby the dash is secured to the body, thus concealing from vi ew the means by which it is h el d there on, for the purpose set forth.

LAOHLAN l. MLKINNON.

ifitnesses:

ALEXR. MITCHELL, XVM. A. NOTMAN. 

